Chapter 2 Section 4

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Chapter 2 Section 4
                                     An Armada
Galleon
                                               Th
e new English 'race' ship that the Spanish could
not catch to board and whose cannon did so much
damage to the Armada's ships

• The Race for Empires
• http//www.britishbattles.com/spanish-war/spanish-
  armada.htm

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Events in Europe affected settlement
of North America.

• Martin Luther, a German priest
• protested the practices of the Catholic Church in
  1517
• leading to a religious reform movement called the
  Protestant Reformation.
• Reformers became known as Protestants
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• Conflict between Catholics and Protestants in
  Europe often led to civil war.
• King Henry VIII defied the
• pope and founded the
• Church of England, or
• Anglican Church, in 1534.

Hans Holbeins famous portrait of Henry VIII
shows the Tudor king as the quintessential
Renaissance sovereign.
http//encarta.msn.com/media_461541814_761570153_-
1_1/Henry_VIII_by_Hans_Holbein.html
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Spain and England Go to War

• King Philip II used Spains wealth to lead a
  Counter-Reformation against the Protestants.
• Philip sent the Spanish Armada to England to
  overthrow Queen Elizabeth and the Anglican
  Church.
• The smaller English fleet defeated the Armada

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http//www.britishbattles.com/spanish-war/spanish-
armada.htm

• The route of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
• The map shows the known wrecks of Armada ships.
• Of the 120 ships in the Armada half were lost
• Of the Armada's complement of 30,000 soldiers and
  sailors 20,000 were lost.

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European nations raced to establish empires in
North America.

• Spanish and Portuguese focused on the
  colonization of Central America, the Caribbean,
  and South America.
• English, French and Dutch then focused on North
  America for expansion of their empires.

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The English in the late 1500s.

• Sir Walter Raleigh received a charter, a document
  giving him permission to start a colony.
• He sent an expedition that landed in present-day
  North Carolina and Virginia.
• The colony established at Roanoke
• John White in 1587, in what is now Virginia,
  mysteriously disappeared.
• CROATOAN

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French Empire in North America

• Fur Traders
• Begin in Floridaran out by the Spanish
• Mississippi River, Great Lakes, and St, Lawrence
  River
• Worked with the Native Americans

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Dutch and Swedish Presence

• New Netherland
• The Dutch came to America for trade.
• They settled land between the Delaware and Hudson
  rivers.
• Manhattan Island was purchased from local Indians
  and called New Amsterdam.

• New Sweden
• Colonists settled along the Delaware River.
• They were the first to build log cabins.
• The Dutch conquered New Sweden in 1655.

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